threshold是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 门槛; 开始; 开端, 入门，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last my foot was on the threshold of his hiding place his secret was within my grasp.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood on the threshold and examined the prince carefully.
-- He has not had a drop for three days; he must be suffering agonies The gen-eral now entered the room, threw the door wide open, and stood on the threshold trembling with indignation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's; for there he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not missed; for, nobody who crossed the threshold looked for him, nobody asked for him, nobody wondered to see only Madame De-farge in her seat, presiding over the distribution of wine, with a bowl of battered small coins before her, as much de-faced and beaten out of their original impress as the small coinage of humanity from whose ragged pockets they had come.
-- They returned home to breakfast, and all went well, and in due course the golden hair that had min-gled with the poor shoemaker's white locks in the Paris garret, were mingled with them again in the morning sun-light, on the threshold of the door at parting.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And would he appear on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine in the evening, on the threshold of the Reform Club saloon?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As my mother stooped down on the threshold to take me in herarms and kiss me, the gentleman said I was a more highlyprivileged little fellow than a monarch- or something like that; formy later understanding comes, I am sensible, to my aid here.
-- My timid stationon his threshold was not occupied more than a couple of minutesat most; but I came down again with all this in my knowledge, assurely as the knife and fork were in my hand.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Boldwood grew hot down to his hands with an incipient jealousy; he trod for the first time the threshold of "the injured lover's hell."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps 37most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ashley would never carry her over the threshold as his bride.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister's observation.
-- I was going out at the opposite door,--not easy to open now, for the damp wood had started and swelled, and the hinges were yielding, and the threshold was encumbered with a growth of fungus,--when I turned my head to look back.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought it so beautiful that he got up and ran out, and as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing, then, that she was not within, he stood on the threshold of the women's rooms and said, 'Women, tell me, and tell me true, where did Andromache go when she left the house?
-- Thus did she speak and white-armed Juno, daughter of great Saturn, obeyed her words; she set about harnessing her gold-bedizened steeds, while Minerva daughter of ae-gis-bearing Jove flung her richly vesture, made with her own hands, on to the threshold of her father, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle.
-- The old warrior Oeneus implored him, standing at the threshold of his room and beating the doors in supplication.
-- All the gods in Olympus were in a fury, but they could not reach you to set you free; when I caught any one of them I gripped him and hurled him from the heavenly threshold till he came fainting down to earth; yet even this did not relieve my mind from the incessant anxiety which I felt about noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had spite-fully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos, after suborning the tempests; but I rescued him, and notwithstanding all his mighty labours I brought him back again to Argos.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His manner was so perfectly easy and good, she stepped over the threshold into the rather dreary little room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Mr and Mrs Meagles at last hung about Pet in the room with the two pictures (where the company were not), before going with her to the threshold which she could never recross to be the old Pet and the old delight, nothing could be more natural and simple than the three were.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But poor Jo never got her laugh, for she was transfixed upon the threshold by a spectacle which held her there, star-ing with her mouth nearly as wide open as her eyes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic.
-- Aye, here on the coin he's just crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring.
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